This is an analysis of the poem L'Amazone that begins with:

Devant le frais cottage au gracieux perron,
Sous la porte que timbre un tortil de baron,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaXXbXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXbXXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,14,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10011011010 111110110010 10101111001 10011100 100111110111 11110110100 01111101101 010101101010 11110111111 110011101 110110111 111101011111 10011011111 111110111100 1101001110 1110110101 01011011010 010111111010 11111111111 101011111 111110111101 10011011100 111011110011 111110111 1110101111000 111011111111 0111111001 1101011110 11011011010 0110110111 111100011111 01100110100
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 732
  • Average number of words per stanza: 140
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; le, et, s are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word le is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines gante, e are repeated).

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of L'Amazone;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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